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'Stomp!" is clomping back to the Marines Memorial Theatre for a 12- week run beginning Oct. 15, but right before it does, the cast will head to Los Angeles to appear on the new "Wayne Brady Show" on Oct. 10.

The cast members know their old stomping grounds: The show held forth at the Marines Memorial for more than 1,000 performances before it closed Sept. 1.

For tickets call (877) 771-6900.

Tickets go on sale Monday for the hit off-Broadway show "Puppetry of the Penis," which opens Oct. 29 at Theatre on the Square. This is a show in which two Australians really go down under and manipulate a certain body part into shapes they call "installations." Among those installations: "The Hamburger" and "The Loch Ness Monster." This isn't a family show, unless perhaps your family is the Osbournes.

The fog will come out tomorrow, tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar: This year's Mountain Play is the hit musical "Annie," say the organizers of the 90- year-old Bay Area tradition. "Annie" will be staged in May and June at the Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on Mount Tam; auditions will be conducted in February.

Producers have completed plans for the San Francisco opening of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" at the Victoria Theatre. Nov. 20 is H-day, and you know it's a done deal because the show has its own Web site now, www.hedwigsf.com (just a teaser cartoon now, but more info to come, I'm told). Tickets will go on sale Nov. 1.

PARTY FATEFUL: The San Francisco Symphony has announced plans for something called the Black & White Ball, at which, I am told, a small number of people gather quietly in and around a seven-block area at the Civic Center for a sedate evening of eating gourmet food, drinking champagne and dancing. Anyway, next year's B&W will be May 31, and tickets are already on sale at a discount ($150) through Feb. 28. Call (415) 864-6000, or at www.bwball.com.

Also on the party circuit, ACT has snagged alumna Annette Bening and Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis as honorary chairs of its annual Starry Starry Night benefit to support the company's conservatory. The event is Nov. 3 at the Fairmont. Call (415) 439-2308 for tickets (only 350 will be sold. The Symphony expects to handle a few more people than that at the Black & White).

DESIGNING WOMAN: The work of the lavishly talented Oakland native Sandra Woodall is now on display at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, in the Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Ave. Woodall's stage and costume designs have graced productions by ACT, the San Francisco Ballet, Smuin Ballets/SF, ODC/San Francisco, Magic Theatre and the Eureka Theater, where she designed the costumes for the original "Angels in America." "Natural Selections: Stage Designs by Sandra Woodall" continues through Dec. 28 at PALM.

Is classical music dead? Listeners were amused on Sunday afternoon when KDFC decided to play music by various composers in reverse alphabetical order all this weekend in a series called "Z to A Weekend." Getting to Dvorak, one listener swears announcer Dianne Nicolini informed her audience that they were now "in the middle of the D composers."

Thanks to an anonymous gift from a private family foundation, New Conservatory Theatre Center has been been able to sign four Equity guest artist contracts for its forthcoming production of Mart Crowley's "The Men From the Boys," a sequel to his iconic 1968 play "The Boys in the Band." The Equity group includes Michael Patrick Gaffney as Emory, Terry Lamb as Hank, Lewis Sims as Bernard and Will Huddleston as Harold. Other cast members include Russ Duffy as Michael, Andrew Nance as the mysterious guest, and three new characters: Owen Thomas as Jason, Olen Christian Holm as Scott and Rajiv Shah as Rick. The new play opens Oct. 16; for tickets, call (415) 861-8972. Oakland Ballet is looking for professional male dancers for the fall season. Call (510) 452-9288 for audition information.